My Neurons Feeling More Connected and Happier
1) Thanks to the Final Blog, I am much clearer on some course concepts such as “revolution of language.” After all we have talked about concerning this issue and taking into consideration the definition of revolution later, I have realized we could not call “what is going on” really a "revolution." That was why, I, too, like Sonicka, had some fuzzy feelings about it before, which took a couple of blog posts and some time to figure out. Some of my words like calling blogs a "part" of a revolution (not the revolution itself), or calling it a "so-called" revolution, were indications of the way I felt. Anyways. I won’t go into it again, but I would like to state my final point on this. I have reached to the conclusion that there had been some changes in the use of language, which could not have happened, if IT technology did not exist. Nevertheless, this was not a revolution in the real sense. It could just be called- in terms of Brooke, Dr. Whithaus, Sonia, and all the people who elaborated on the issue, too- a part of an evolution of language, or a remediation, just a change in use of it.2) Christenbury’s point while talking with Dr Whithaus in “With Good Reason” that we should be “alarmed if time spent in front of the screen with such activities (as Instant Messaging) becomes an idol,” reminded me of the cartoon below:) I hope we will not be like this during in-class exam, when we get the questions on paper.
That is all for this post. I will be here with some more original posts soon. See you, Elif.
posted by Prof Guler @ 11:42 PM
1 Comments:
Thank you for the summary on the issue of the "language revolution." I finally feel quite settled on that, but wow, it took us a while!
PS: A good joke:)! Although it kind of implies that it will be the future generation that will tell us if we were in the stage of revolution or not.
Post a Comment
<< Home